New #LatAmFocus: Can Rodrigo Paz Unearth Bolivia’s Lithium Potential? Texas A&M’s Diego von Vacano talks to ASCOA’s @carinzissis.bsky.social about the history of political and economic obstacles stifling the sector and outlines the path ahead for the new president. 🎧 Listen: ow.ly/e5y050Xr1uX

On June 26, Trump backed a remittance tax in the "big, beautiful bill," saying it will help fund the wall. But the 3.5% tax could lead migrants, scared to share migration status, to find other ways to send money home, weakening financial transparency, CEMLA's René Maldonado told me in #LatAmFocus 🎙️

😮Did you know that when Mexico's first congresswoman took office in 1958, women still weren't able vote in a national election? 🇲🇽 @carinzissis.bsky.social‬ reflects upon Aurora Jiménez de Palacios' legacy for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/aurora-jimen...

🇲🇽 President Sheinbaum headed to 🇨🇦 Mon for G7, where she's expected to hold a bilateral mtg with 🇺🇸 Trump Tues PM. This is her 3rd trip abroad since she became president in Oct: 🇧🇷the G20 in Brazil, Nov 2024 🇭🇳the CELAC summit, Honduras in Apr 2025 🇨🇦G7 in Canada now www.reforma.com/viaja-sheinb...

Come join us in DC for this conversation on June 12. All you have to do is register at: www.as-coa.org/amazon

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

On June 1, Mexico held unprecedented direct elections for judges and magistrates. From candidate totals to voter turnout, AS/COA’s @carinzissis.bsky.social explains the voting day in six facts and figures: ow.ly/8Nfr50W2Yf8

On the anniversary of Mexico's election of President Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to hold the position, @carinzissis.bsky.social reflects on the history—and paradox—of women's political power in the country. zps.la/4juaSlE

Aurora Jiménez became Mexico's first congresswoman in 1954 due to a special election and before 🇲🇽 women even got to participate in a national vote. For @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social, I cover her unlikely rise to power 70 yrs before MX's first presidenta. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/aurora-jimen...

“To speak of a country with more than a hundred and twenty-seven thousand disappeared people is to question democracy itself,” María de Vecchi Gerli, who leads the Truth and Memory Program at the human-rights group Article 19. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"As we approach the Cristero Rebellion’s centennial in 2026, we will likely see more attempts to equate Morena with the socialism and anti-clericalism of the 1920s and ’30s...to mobilize Catholics in opposition." www.americasquarterly.org/article/the-...

Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade. - vía @nytimes.com

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‘Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?” @jennykleeman.bsky.social

BREAKNG: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected status" for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals — which was slated to expire next week. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Can Mexico build a national care system covering care for children, people with disabilities, the elderly—and the caretakers themselves? This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.

A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources. Can Mexico get there? @carinzissis.bsky.social writes:

🇲🇽 At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce. I cover Mexico's gender workforce gap and push for a national care system in @wpr.bsky.social: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mexico-care-...

📢 The Role of Latin American Women in Advancing Human Rights 🌎✊ In this article in the @latamprog.bsky.social, @wilsoncenter.org Fellow @carinzissis.bsky.social explores the historical contributions of #LatinAmerican women to the #humanrights movement​ 📖 www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ho...

Hillary Clinton declared "Women's rights are human rights" at the 1995 Beijing Conf. But Latin American women helped enshrine the concept in the UN Charter 50 years before—and over US objections. For #8M #WomensHistoryMonth, I write for @latamprog.bsky.social: www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ho...

2 sides, 1 coin: On same day Trump's 25% tariffs on Mexico go into effect, 🇲🇽's lawsuit against 🇺🇸 gun makers lands in the US Supreme Court. 🇺🇸 declared MX org crime groups terrorist orgs and says fentanyl is cause for tariffs, even as illicit 🇺🇸 guns arm crime groups. www.scotusblog.com/2025/03/mexi...

Just as 🇲🇽 Security Chief García Harfuch is in DC for talks, Mexico reveals that it has extradited 29 organized crime group members to the 🇺🇸, including Caro Quintero www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/desde...

"In discussions so far, American officials have delivered vague ultimatums and unclear policy demands that Mexico dismantle the cartels or face the full force of Washington’s power...leading to confusion among Mexican officials." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

Mexican President Sheinbaum announced that Security Sec Harfuch & Econ Sec Ebrard are expected to head to 🇺🇸 this week to hold 🇲🇽's first cabinet-level meetings with Trump admin. The White House has set a March 1 deadline to impost 25% tariffs on 🇲🇽 elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

Who is being sent to Guantanamo? “According to US fed court records, 2 of them had no crimes on their records except for illegal entry. The 3rd had picked up an additional charge while in detention, for kicking an officer while being restrained during a riot.” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/13/i...

👵🏼🇲🇽Mexico is growing old—and fast. Its demographic bonus ends with Sheinbaum's presidency and the number of elderly Mexicans who need care will triple by 2050. Is the country ready for the challenge? My latest for Americas Quarterly: www.americasquarterly.org/article/mexi...

Los arrestos de ciudadanos estadounidenses por delitos relacionados con cárteles en México se dispararon bajo el gobierno de López Obrador #NarcoUSA The Guardian retomando el reportaje de @pajaropolitico.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

“Politics becomes like a soccer match in which the referees, the groundskeepers, and the scorekeepers work for one team to sabotage its rival.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The new Corruption Perceptions Index is out. The US dropped 4 spots...and that was before Trump administration decided to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024/... www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...

🍓🥦 91% of 🇲🇽 women agricultural workers don't get social security. Only 3% have work contracts. "US supermarkets get fresh fruits & vegetables because there is a chain of labor that starts in Mexican fields, and a big part of that labor falls to women." mujeres.expansion.mx/actualidad/2....

Despite a production increase, Mexican car exports dropped nearly 14% in January amid tariff fears. www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/exp...

Per @pajaropolitico.bsky.social, there's been an uptick in number of US citizens detained in Mexico for organized crime ties, with US citizens increasingly involved in these types of crimes "because they can cross the border much more easily than foreigners." animalpolitico.com/seguridad/na...

En un mensaje en Twitter donde leyó su tuit de ayer, la presidenta Sheinbaum informó que va a esperar a ver qué le responde Trump a su propuesta de diálogo -porque no quiere «confrontación»- y mañana en la mañanera nos cuenta de qué va el plan B (lo de las medidas arancelarias y no arancelarias)

I’m not going full “phone free February” but I’ve been appreciating app limits. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

"The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases." A maddening but important read:

I'm getting in the habit of checking google maps each day to make sure things are still as they should be.

Crazy that she doesn't even mention Mexico, with which Canada also has an important free trade agreement, here.

Si eres migrante en Estados Unidos, tienes derechos, conócelos. Info de ACLU.

Great listen, especially at this moment in time: “We’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.” open.spotify.com/episode/5JdP...

The antidote to today's anti-factchecking Meta news. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

My fave new stat of the new year: "For scale, Mexico City’s metropolitan GDP is slightly smaller than that of Colombia or Chile." This is from MXPE Weekly Essentials. Given US-MX ties are on all the 2025 "risk lists" and knowing is 1/2 the battle, sign up for knowledge: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...

"Meta will dismantle its extensive fact-checking program...ending a practice that has sought to limit the spread of falsehoods on its platform..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

An excellent analysis from @carinzissis.bsky.social & Maria Fernanda Benavides on why 2024 was not time for women in the US -- but it was in Mexico (including quotes from @labaldez.bsky.social about quotas and me about women in the GOP). vozyvoto.com.mx/articulo/por...

"Mexico Is Doing the United States’ Dirty Work on Migration" Trump's pledges to “secure the border,” are dead in the water without Mexican cooperation and he knows it LATEST by me with Daniela Diaz for World Politics Review (gift link) www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mexico-us-mi...

¿Por qué no fue el tiempo de las mujeres en los Estados Unidos? En la revista Voz y Voto, María Fernanda Benavides y yo escribimos unas respuestas, incluso sobre cómo el aumento de mujeres en el congreso tras el movimiento #MeToo se ha estancado: vozyvoto.com.mx/articulo/por...

Every time a political leader takes up the issue of daylight savingS time, I can’t help but think of Veep. youtu.be/cHsd-EU_KKI?...

In Mexico, it's time for women—except in the 2025 budget. President Sheinbaum followed in AMLO's footsteps by apportioning most of the spending (89%) for gender equality to social programs—many of which, like tree planting or pensions—aren't related to gender. animalpolitico.com/politica/pre... 1/

4 in 10 elections if the elections that CFR lists as ones to watch in 2025 are in the Americas: Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, and Canada. 🇪🇨🇧🇴🇭🇳🇨🇦 (Mexico's judicial elections didn't make the list, but I will be watching those.) www.cfr.org/article/ten-...

In Mexico, a judge absolved Diego 'N', a college student charged with using AI to produce sexualized images of fellow students. Lawyers say they'll appeal the decision in what has been seen as a landmark case. forbes.com.mx/batalla-por-...

In Mexico, the economic value of unpaid domestic work was 26.3% of GDP last year. www.eleconomista.com.mx/economia/equ...